THE PRINCE OF WALES.
+1 Mistake arose in telegraphing tlmt the Pi-mce was* dead is tliu ? explained by the Melbourne /Argus The arrival" of the branch steamer /off Glenelg was tel. egraphed a little , after midnight.' Soon alter we had the tele, ram announcing that the steamer was m sight we got a second +1 j the signal, bemgone lantern, Bv jH C ° 1 ? f " Signals arranged for the his, mail by the associated press correpondent.at Adelaide, " one .-laitern " was to ".pify-.the Prince .of Wales is dead!" Ihe message was received, the import of the supposed signal was ascertained and nort^t°i7n- 0n being r^arded as impoitantpiibhe concern, was freely circuited., The effect of the former had tended to make the Prince's death a ■enm-t < i^ Cnt ' tll ° si - nal now seemed to w- 1 P Ol -!. , lfc as an actual one; and the mossnze was without question sSiibsequei.t y, however, when the. "fuli &fet? at . cl J Cameto """A" ouna . tiiat. the statement was quite un founded, .and aJso tl.at-so far S itl being true-W Koyal Highness was hro pily- ln-apfarr way of.improvement.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 153, 9 February 1872, Page 6
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183THE PRINCE OF WALES. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 153, 9 February 1872, Page 6
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